Got to the grocery store, wore my sunglasses there. Realized when I got there I didn't have my glasses and couldn't read a darn label. No choice but to leave....no glasses = can't read the ingredients. Not far to go but frustrating.

That is a pain! If at Superstore or Costco you could ask to test-drive a pair of glasses from the Optical department and once done your shopping decide you don't like them. I need new progressives - got them so I could stop lifting my glasses for those tiny labels but already need a new prescription. Hence, another reason why I support companies who make their labels easy to read!

_________________me: allergic to crustaceans plus environmental
teenager: allergic to hazelnuts, some other foods and environmental

I have done that a couple of times too... if I've forgotten my readers, I will bring wheel my cart over to the optical department where the readers are on display and read the ingredients on my items of interest . It's not a great option, but I have used it a couple of times in a pinch.

I will bring wheel my cart over to the optical department where the readers are on display and read the ingredients on my items of interes

You all crack me up. I am SO glad to have all my allergy mommy friends, I knew you'd understand. May I too didn't need glasses until about 6 months ago, my eyes were getting worse and worse reading labels until my arm wasn't long enough to focus. Now I can't even try read ing. labels without them.

I tried reading the ingredients on the back of a hot dog package (with my glasses) and couldn't make heads or tails of it. The ing. were written accross the bottom of the package like a wave, what the heck!!! And try reading the ing. on the top of a sour cream container (for gelatin) as it goes in a circle in blurred print on plastic.

It's like a silent movie: I picture a row of shopping carts...full with groceries... lined up by the optical center..... each mom is wearing a pair of borrowed glasses (with that white plastic tag sticking straight up from the nose bridge).... horrified children are pulling their hoodies up to conceal their identity due to embarassment... as mom's read labels they don't comment, just look up, give fellow moms an understood nod, flip open their lapel to reveal a teal ribbon...continue reading labels muttering to themselves the entire time about small print, print on shiny packages, why on earth different sizes of the same product need to be made in different factories hence different warnings, turning my head in a circle to read the top of a sour cream container, .you know, the same complaints we mutter every single time we read the exact same product......as one allergy mom returns the spectacles and pushes her cart away anther allergy mom pulls up..

omg...funny....I have had to read ing. for quite a few years now and have bought about 30 pair over the years.....& chains....they get wrecked really easily w/chains....and one day I bought a new pair cause I thought I had lost mine....turned out they were on the chain on my back....but really BC2007, were you in the drug store I shop at last week? I bought a new pair again, wore them while I shopped......and came home to find my old ones in the laundry.... I also have a pair without any arms in the bottom of my purse..but couldn't find them... I loved your story

I also have a pair without any arms in the bottom of my purse..but couldn't find them..

Paint them teal, they might be easier to spot in the bottom of your bag.

But really, do you think there are marketers in a meeting somewhere cracking themselves up "hey Bud, I've got it, lets try silver writing on gold foil wrap this time... Huuuhh huuuuhh, we are so funny!"

"Yah, and like next time Judd lets kind of blur the print on the plastic container so their eyes water and they get all dizzy trying to read the label."

"Totally Bud, and you know what, lets package our granoleeee bars so that the label is in the fold so they have to pull the bottom flap back in order to read the label"

"Heee Haaaa, U R So funny Judd, and like we could freak them out by putting the ingredients on the part of the lollipop that twists around the stick so they can't even see it until they open it...heee haaaa"

Oh, and Judd must have been the one to put all the anti-theft tags across the ingredients list on all cosmetics at the store my daughter wanted to buy her first lip gloss. Did you know how many have avocado oil? Not quite the lip enhancement she would have wanted.

_________________me: allergic to crustaceans plus environmental
teenager: allergic to hazelnuts, some other foods and environmental

You guys are hilarious! Dh (who is several yrs older than me) recently had to get reading glasses because as he also said 'his arm wasn't long enough'. I can't wait to turn 40. . . . Heard different body parts stop working properly the day after your 40th bday.

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